On June 10-11,2023, the Third Taklimakan Desert Forum and the Second African Green Great Wall Capacity Building Workshop were successfully organized in Korla city of Xinjiang, China, with over 180 participants from China and 14 developing countries. Ms. Linxiu Zhang, Director of UNEP-IEMP, was invited to give a keynote presentation on "Ecosystem Restoration with Nexus Approaches: Actions, Impacts and Implications".
Ms. Linxiu Zhang emphasized the importance and progress of promoting nexus approach for sustainable development, and introduced some UNEP-IEMP actions, impacts and implications of nexus approach. Through the cases of building ecological green belt in Mauritania and empowering women on climate smart-agriculture in Ningxia, China, they well reflected the required efforts for multidisciplinary and cross-sector coordination, traditional wisdom and community participation, action-research to enhance science-policy interface, and women empowerment. Ms. Zhang elaborated on the important global opportunities and linkages towards the United Nations Decade of Ecological Restoration, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the UN Food System Transformation.
Director Linxiu Zhang gave a keynote presentation
The Forum was jointly organized by the Bureau of International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Association for Science and Technology of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Alliance of International Science Organizations and the Secretariat of the Pan-African Green Great Wall. The conference aims to share China's desertification control technologies and experiences, promote cooperation and exchanges between China and other countries in the field of land degradation and desertification control, and contribute to these goals like land degradation neutrality by 2030 and reduce degraded land by 50% by 2040.
During this conference, UNEP-IEMP also had discussion with different teams from Africa, Central Asia and China on the cooperation opportunities.
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